Consultant, SDC-SED Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Small Enterprise Development, Pakistan (January, 2002 - February, 2002)
• Appraisal performance of Long-term Institution Building project strengthening micro finance operations of First Women Bank;
• Formulation of project concept and detailed implementation mechanism for the envisaged SDC Financial sector strengthening project (initial concept proposed by Consultant);
• Analyze sector bottlenecks and meet all relevant actors;
• Pre-select institutions with potential to implement the project;
• Designed project uses BDS best practices concepts, to provide TA services to Financial Institutions;
• Finalize SDC Micro and Small Enterprise Strategy
Consultant, Royal Netherlands Embassy Nairobi, Kenya (January 2001)
• Advise on medium term strategic positioning and strategic issue for large Trust, providing financing and technical assistance to MFIs in Kenya;
• Identifying financing policies, criteria for financing, interest rate setting for the Trust funding;
• Sourcing new investors for the Trust;
• Staffing plan for the Trust.
Consultant, European Commission, Indonesia (February, 1996 - July, 1996)
• Benchmarking in micro lending in Europe, reducing cost and managing risk, working towards best practice. Action research project financed by European Commission, DG XXIII (in co-operation with IFF Hamburg).
• Country study of the Netherlands
• Benchmarking 8 micro credit institutions in Poland, UK, France, Spain, USA
• Write handbook on micro lending best practices in Europe
• Disseminate results to practitioners and financial sector
Course Director, FACET BV, Netherlands (July, 1996 - ongoing)
• Course director for regular expert training courses in the area of SME development and Micro Finance institution building.
• Provide curricula and lectures for tailor made courses to experts before fielding and for refresher courses
Project Team Member, IFC Pensa (programme for Eastern Indonesia SME Assistance) through FACET BV, Indonesia (February – June 2005)
• Project team member IFC Pensa assignment
• Develop the Business Development Service Provider ( BDSP ) – Finance Training Curriculum, including TOT, Training Delivery, Examination and Certification procedures. This training program, aims at strengthening BDSPs as SME – Bank intermediaries
• Support the establishment of this BDSP-Finance program as a viable Professional Certification system in collaboration with the PEACs (Promoting Enterprise Access to Credit) Ltd enterprises, established by shareholders with assistance from IFC and Swisscontact.
